ZIP 78017 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 78017 (Frio County, Texas) at a minimal 13/100 for overall property distress. Its heaviest discrete signals: institutional ownership (30/100), structural risk (26/100), mortgage stress (4/100). By contrast, structural risk (26/100) and mortgage stress (4/100) register low. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (71/100)). Structural risk reads 26/100 against active distress of 1/100.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.0% year on year (phase confidence 22/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Median household income is $51,111, below the U.S. median near $78,000. 62% of housing is owner-occupied. On demographic stress specifically, 78017 scores 30/100. The vacancy rate is 20.3% — elevated. The poverty rate is 20.6% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. About 14% have a four-year degree. Around 34% of renters are cost-burdened. The typical home is worth about $103,100 (1.9× income, relatively affordable). There are about 1,640 housing units across 78017. 6,160 residents call 78017 home, typically aged 29.

On the whole, 78017 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

Big metro or rural, 78017 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 13/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Frio County, Texas and the nation. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 78017, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

78017's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. Practically, 78017 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.